2021 Season | Series #38 | Angels @ Indians | Aug. 20-22

[Pierre Pan]

Ump was inspecting Shaws glove as he went to the dugout. Is this now standard or random?

Standard

 

[Alabuckeye]

Angels with 10 hits……in the series.

 

[Martyinnewyork]

Plesac looks like our #5 starter now…

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Quantrill now has a 1.50 ERA over his last seven starts. He's pitching like a Cy Young winner.

The Indians outscore the Angels 17-2 to take the last series ever between the Angels and Indians. Next year we'll have a couple of Guardian Angels series.

Two batters in we have two runs and then score only one from there. That's been pretty typical lately.

It's been taking Karinchak three batters to find his curve ball. Until he's thrown about five of them he can't get it over and is a one-pitch pitcher. For him to pitch up to his potential he needs to be able to start throwing strikes with his curve to the first batter, not the third or fourth.

What a job by Wittgren to get the guy who leads the A.L. in hits to ground into a double play and get us out of the inning.

Nice defensive game by the Indians. Great plays by Mercado and Josie to steal hits and they made all the routine plays flawlessly, except Amed should have spun the other way on the infield single.

Zimmer had no chance against the lefties ( 3 K's) but managed to ground out against the right-hander to avoid the Golden Sombrero. Josie and Franmil had bad days at the plate but Amed came through with the two-run jack and that was all Quantrill needed.

The said the Angels have scored the fourth fewest runs in baseball since the break. Without Trout and Rendon I believe it. We caught them at a good time.

 

[DCTribefan]

Plesac looks like our #5 starter now…

His hold on the BOR may be tenuous as well if he doesn’t snap out of his funk.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Actually, I AM old. But these guys make the Cleveland announcers look and sound great.

What, you weren't fascinated when Alex had Mo'ne Davis show us how she used to hold all her pitches?

My favorite was putting a headset on Josie with Amed at the plate. Suddenly we see Josie tearing off the headset and sprinting for the bat rack. I would have liked to hear what Hale was saying right about then.

I have to admit the interview with Quantrill was good but that was because Cal's a Stanford guy.

 

[DCTribefan]

Quantrill now has a 1.50 ERA over his last seven starts. He's pitching like a Cy Young winner.

The Indians outscore the Angels 17-2 to take the last series ever between the Angels and Indians. Next year we'll have a couple of Guardian Angels series.

Two batters in we have two runs and then score only one from there. That's been pretty typical lately.

It's been taking Karinchak three batters to find his curve ball. Until he's thrown about five of them he can't get it over and is a one-pitch pitcher. For him to pitch up to his potential he needs to be able to start throwing strikes with his curve to the first batter, not the third or fourth.

What a job by Wittgren to get the guy who leads the A.L. in hits to ground into a double play and get us out of the inning.

Nice defensive game by the Indians. Great plays by Mercado and Josie to steal hits and they made all the routine plays flawlessly, except Amed should have spun the other way on the infield single.

Zimmer had no chance against the lefties ( 3 K's) but managed to ground out against the right-hander to avoid the Golden Sombrero. Josie and Franmil had bad days at the plate but Amed came through with the two-run jack and that was all Quantrill needed.

The said the Angels have scored the fourth fewest runs in baseball since the break. Without Trout and Rendon I believe it. We caught them at a good time.

Believe it was Shaw who got the DP ball in the 8th, not Witgren.

 

[MadThinker88]

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What a job by Wittgren to get the guy who leads the A.L. in hits to ground into a double play and get us out of the inning.

......

Actually it was the other whipping boy (Bryan Shaw) that induced the double play ball on Sunday night..

Still a nice job, just need to give credit to the right person.

 

[CATS44]

If Quantrill had enough IP to qualify, he would be ranked 3rd on ERA and 10th in FIP.

Thats FOR numbers.

 

[ZinAZ]

Quantrill now has a 1.50 ERA over his last seven starts. He's pitching like a Cy Young winner.

The Indians outscore the Angels 17-2 to take the last series ever between the Angels and Indians. Next year we'll have a couple of Guardian Angels series.

Two batters in we have two runs and then score only one from there. That's been pretty typical lately.

It's been taking Karinchak three batters to find his curve ball. Until he's thrown about five of them he can't get it over and is a one-pitch pitcher. For him to pitch up to his potential he needs to be able to start throwing strikes with his curve to the first batter, not the third or fourth.

What a job by Wittgren to get the guy who leads the A.L. in hits to ground into a double play and get us out of the inning.

Nice defensive game by the Indians. Great plays by Mercado and Josie to steal hits and they made all the routine plays flawlessly, except Amed should have spun the other way on the infield single.

Zimmer had no chance against the lefties ( 3 K's) but managed to ground out against the right-hander to avoid the Golden Sombrero. Josie and Franmil had bad days at the plate but Amed came through with the two-run jack and that was all Quantrill needed.

The said the Angels have scored the fourth fewest runs in baseball since the break. Without Trout and Rendon I believe it. We caught them at a good time.

Hmm sinker ball pitcher starts throwing 4 seamer transforms career. Sound a little like Garret Cole?

 

[CDAV45]

Plesac looks like our #5 starter now…

Oh how baseball fans have short memories.

 

[KluberSociety]

Hmm sinker ball pitcher starts throwing 4 seamer transforms career. Sound a little like Garret Cole?

I'd attribute his success more to his cutter. Based on runs above average stats:
Cutter: +5.3
Changeup: +2.7
Sinker/Two-Seam: +1.2
Fourseam: -2.5

And if you look at the usage stats he only started using his cutter the last 2 months. First MLB cutter thrown in June (2%), upped it in July (16%) and again in August (31%).

Over his career, he has shown great success with his sinker. It's been an effective pitch (+13.3 runs above average). Another weapon in the arsenal is usually good but a sinker/cutter combination can be deadly when spotted correctly (think of Kluber). Not sure why he's taken so long to bring out the cutter but the results have been great.

I think we can actually expect him to tone down a bit of the 4-seam usage and focus more on the sinker/cutter/changeup combination. Although typically 4-seamer/changeup combos are effective against lefties and maybe that's where he will use the 4-seamer more.

Sources:
Usage stats: https://www.brooksbaseball.net/outc...rtDate=03/30/2007&endDate=08/23/2021&s_type=2
Runs above average stats: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/cal-quantrill/19312/stats?position=P

 

[KluberSociety]

Quantrill's 9 K's:

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First K - spotted backdoor cutter
Second K - diving backdoor sinker
Double play - looked like it had nice horizontal action but labeled as a 4-seamer
Third K - another spotted backdoor cutter
Fourth K - high-ish sinker mostly down the middle, mistake pitch that for whatever reason fooled hitter (Max Stassi)
Fifth K - sinker that sinked out of the zone
Sixth K - beautiful spotted changeup
Seventh K - backdoor sinker, probably outside but got the call
Eighth K - hanging cutter, bad pitch but missed by hitter (again Max Stassi who also took the bad sinker)
Ninth K - filthy cutter out of the zone, that got the chase. Great 0-2 pitch.

Mostly great stuff, and I guess good thing he made the mistakes to Stassi who actually has had a decent year but looked completely baffled.

General style was working low in the zone, both sides with sinker/cutter combination, similar approach to Kluber.

 

[BimboColesHair]

Did anyone else hear his interview?

Incredibly inciteful takes on staff building and what they’re into from a development perspective.

Which took him a little while to embrace.

 

[Gson]

Actually, I AM old. But these guys make the Cleveland announcers look and sound great.

A national audience has to appeal to a broader audience.. Arod is by no means a mensan.. and wouldn't be the kind of color analyst you're looking for w/r to popularism as it relates to baseball.. He's just a wealthy former player who could really play, has a "safe" ability to articulate & does no harm first.. Milque toast.. sure.. hard hitting.. only when he played.. Matt Vasgersian, on the other hand, has been a play by play guy for a long time (Santa Maria !!) in both television as well as radio, mostly on the west coast (Padres, Angels..etc). His tone is clearly toned down for national broadcasts.. In a long winded way.. the Indians announcers.. both radio and TV blow by ARod.. but are equal to but not better than Matty-V.. imho..